u/lettingthingsin

I'll start with mine.

Btw, some of the meals you make here look great.

The good:

1. Kale with flaxseed meal and pepper. Microwaved for a minute. It makes me feel, after I eat it, warm and loved and cared for. It really does something for me.
2. Raw unpeeled carrots.
3. Eggs, particularly in the morning. Supposedly you should be getting more protein in in the morning, also.

The bad:

1. Alcohol.
2. Sugar. I never drink any soda. When I eat something with added sugar or something with simple carbs, like white bread, I feel bad. I might also have a mild celiac thing; I remember seeing some variant on 23andme. Sometimes something like a Costco croissant really brings me into that sludgy bad-feeling territory. But basically added sugar or sugar that is quickly absorbed.
3. Sometimes certain meats, I guess, like hotdogs? Processed meat? Sometimes very fatty wild salmon but not always, might be something else going with that, like how it's cooked. I don't eat much beef; I read once that the glycocalyx, something that coats our cells, is slightly different in beef, but it's similar enough so that our body mistakes it for what it normally uses, and this leads to issues.

People are often nostalgic for times before Covid, but what exactly was ruined? What feels wrong? What makes things feel uncanny? Is everyone just poor? Are we just overstimulated? Do we feel unorganized because there isn't much of a "monoculture" anymore? We've been around for 200,000 years as a species; are we going to let the past 5 years undo us? Make us malfunction? Dull us out? Is life not still magical? What do we think we're missing? Are there too many options? Have we become too logical, too in a sort of meta awareness, always watching ourselves, always thinking after feeling? Do we feel guilty passing people by and knowing we'll most likely never be involved in their lives? When did that start feeling heavy? Or did we not think that way about interactions in the past? Did we feel we had more purpose in the past? Do we need purpose? Do we feel like gluttons, indulging in everything to the point it ruins us? What changed? What's different?